Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University is a nationally recognized doctoral/research university located in Lubbock, Texas, established in 1923 originally as Texas Technological College. The array of options available to the more than 28,000 students at Texas Tech are varied and comprehensive. The students at this public school in Lubbock enjoy a campus rich in traditions and school spirit. It is one of the largest research universities in the state of Texas and is a member of the Big Twelve conference.

Notable alumni and ex-students

• Kenneth L. Anderson, chief of the Historic American Buildings Survey
• Doug Ault, Major League Baseball player
• G.W. Bailey, actor
• Bob Bullock, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas
• Waggoner Carr, former Texas Attorney General who began his own investigation of the Kennedy Assassination
• R.D. Cash, President Questar
• Lauro Cavazos, former Texas Tech president and U.S. Secretary of Education under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
• Richard Clapp, Major League Baseball player
• Major General Robert Clark, Commander, 5th Army
• Barry Corbin, actor
• Tom Craddick, Texas Speaker of the House
• John Denver, singer
• George Eads, actor
• Earnest Gloya, former Dean of Engineering, University of Texas
• Pat Green, country music singer
• Grandmaster Ratte', hacker
• Henry Gray, Dean, Dedman College, SMU
• Scott Grundy, chairman, Department of Clinical Nutrition, University of Texas School of Medicine
• Jerry Hall, journalist and political consultant
• Kent Hance, U.S. Congressman
• Bernard A. Harris, Jr., astronaut
• John Hinckley, Jr., attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan
• James Hindeman, President, Angelo State University
• E.J. Holub, American Football League All-Star
• Jack Huddle, musician
• Walter Huffman, Dean, Texas Tech School of Law and former U.S. Judge Advocate General
• Rick Husband, astronaut and commander of STS-107 (Columbia), killed in the Columbia disaster
• Dr. O. Wayne Isom, David Letterman's heart surgeon and chairman of the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Cornell University
• Phil Johnson, Texas Supreme Court Justice
• Rocky Johnson, CEO, GTE
• Pete Laney, Former Texas Speaker of the House
• Billy Mack Jones, President, Southwest Texas State University and Memphis State University
• Paul Lockhart, astronaut
• Robert Montemayor, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Bam Morris, Former NFL running back
• Randy Neugebauer, U.S. Congressman
• George H. O'Brien Jr., Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
• Robert Palmer, CEO, Digital Equipment
• William Pearce, former President, Texas Wesleyan College
• Jerry S. Rawls, President & CEO, Finistar Corporation
• William Sanger, Former CEO GEICO
• David Schmidley, President, Oklahoma State University
• Preston Smith, former Governor of the State of Texas
• Charles Stenholm, U.S. Congressman
• Sheryl Swoopes, WNBA player
• Karen P.Tandy, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
• Zach Thomas, NFL player
• Mac Thornberry, U.S. Congressman
• Dan Thornton, former Governor of Colorado
• Allen Tomlison Jr., President, Diamond Shamrock
• J.Rex Vardeman, Founder, Harris Satellite Communications
• Joseph M. Watt, Chief Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court
• Dirk West, cartoonist and journalist
• Edward Whitacre, Jr., Chairman and CEO of SBC